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City Pumps Brakes on Plan to Add Third Lane to BQE in Brooklyn Heights

City officials said they would reconsider adding a third lane on the BQE in Brooklyn Heights.

The city said on Friday that it will reconsider controversial plans to add a third lane to a crumbling section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

The Department of Transportation announced on Friday that it’s re-examining the number of lanes it might build as part of upgrades and repairs to the triple cantilever section of the BQE along the Brooklyn Heights waterfront. As a result, the timeline for the project will be pushed back, and an environmental review originally scheduled for this spring will instead begin in the fall.

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